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Let's talk small-towns
Lucky4597
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When I regularly spent time in the Gadsden AL area I had a guy explain Ballplay to me - he referred to it as an "area" more so than a town. I'm also aware of a place down in the Pontiac IL/Livingston County area referred to as the "Fairbury Blacktop", pretty tough to find any map references to that one.
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I have friends from Bozoo, WV. Pronounced bo-zoo.
Great granddaughter 's father is from Fries, Virginia. Pronounced freeze.
There’s some other good ones I remember from growing up in VA…..
Bumpass
Tightsqueeze
Frog Level
Boogertown
Possum Trot
Lick Skillet
Twodot, Montana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twodot,_Montana
I am a few miles from-Nine Times,Pumpkintown and Six Mile.
Not a small town, but Portsmouth, Virginia is pronounced Porch muth by locals.
There are at least 7 Pumpkin Center localities in seven different states in America.
I've been to Intercourse, Pa.A, and Bird In Hand, Pa.
And apparently 4 or 5 named Possum Trot.
I live midway between Slickrock and Springbank . I am a member of the Elroy vfd. Elroy is an unincorporated community outside of Goldsboro nc .
Slapout, Okla.
We have Hell and Paradise in Michigan.
Ann Arbor and ,Houghton?
Been to both I like Houghton.
Why?
Michigan Tech, Fish-Bowls, Broomball, The Portage - and if you get bored you can go across the bridge to Hancock.
Monkey's Eyebrow, Ky is popular for waterfowl hunting. Then, there's Two Eggs, FL. Finally there's Bull Frog Hollow and Toad Suck, AR.
Wait! What about Bugtussle? I always thought it was fictional and the Clampett's hometown, but apparently there are several real towns/cities w/that name.
Yeah, I spent a lot of my teen years working in NW MO in a little wide spot with a pop. of 654 (now somewhat less). There was veterinary work, working on a tractor, and a nice young lady named Dixie. And it was close to Kansas City, which may have been its best feature (apart from those pork tenderloins the size of a '57 Chevy hubcap on a bun). There was also a drive-in movie a half hour south, which constituted a big time date there. That was before the internet, cell phones, and cable TV. When Dixie and I parked on a gravel road, and no one went by, the next day the town was buzzing with how that animal doctor was stepping out on his sweet young wife. OK, the red and white '63 Buick Special was unique in the county (last seen working as a taxi in Havana Cuba), but whose business was it? Her brother Bub wasn't worried. Small towns? You can keep 'em. And try finding good pizza at the Panther (yeah, that was the high school mascot) drive-in. Or a source of under age beer.
Jim D, don't read the sign too fast when you get to Scotrun, Pa. Specially if you're dyslexic.
In Indiana:
South Bend is in the north, North Vernon is in the South and French Lick aint what you think!
Kentucky- Big Bone Lick Park
Morehead, Kentucky
Ainger, Ohio. Never was hardly anything there but today there is nothing there except the two signs indicating where Ainger once was.
When I was a pre-teen we would go to a small steak house in Bugtussle Alabama that was near Smith Lake from what I remember. There was a steak that if you could eat it all it was free. Rumour is that the guy who owned the place went to jail for stealing cattle.
We have Summit City (Michigan) nearby here and it is just some RR tracks and a few homes spaced far apart on acreage. Also on very FLAT ground, so why they called it Summit I'll never know!
It once was a busy place with all the small town amenities during the logging days of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
And then there is Meauwataka. A small ghost town I can travel to from my place by golf cart. I always have to look it up in order to spell it correctly!
Seven Springs in wayne county,NC . Originally named Whitehall after a plantation . Oldest town in our county . Sits on the river and has flooded 4 times in my life . Currently population of 34 ..Claim to fame a hotel offering 7 different mineral waters from natural springs, said to each cure a ditlfferen t problem .Active from mid 1870 to 1946 .Apparently very well known and publicized from about 1900 until ww2
There is, (or was), a very small church across the bridge from Houghton (MI) and while the steeple had a cross on top, the 4 stain glass panels below it had 4 blue Stars of David. The 3rd time I passed it, (I was at the Ramada that is literally under the bridge on the Hancock side), I stopped and stepped in. A very young priest probably thought I was seeking absolution, (need - yes, seeking at that moment - no), and must have heard me come in. He asked if he could help me and I told him I could no longer stand the riddle of those stars in the steeple.
He told me what he had been told is that in the very late 1800's or early in the 1900's an entire Jewish congregation had been transplanted to the area and the men of that congregation constituted an accounting firm. They had agreed to do the booking for several mining companies up in the UP. The church was originally their synagogue. When those companies moved their main offices back to the metro NY area sometime during the Great Depression, they moved back also and a local Catholic parish converted the building to their chuch. Nutty story.
I would someday like to visit Hooterville.
That is all. 😁
You can add Belchertown to that list.
Merideth McCrae - oh boy...
Well, over on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, there is a spot worth seeing. Yes, really is the name.
We live in a little town called LOLETA.... just over 500 folks. I always have to spell it for people and the zip code I finally say 9 triple 5 1. People get confused with just saying 95551 😁
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
Poga near here, Pronounced Poggie.
Welcome on one side of sign and hurry back on the other.
Have a Scaley and Little Scaley.
High Rock City is another small community.
Had a Dogtown and Bullscrape until folks got civilized.
I know that place. My sister lives close by in Fortuna.
I always wanted to visit Petticoat Junction
North of Little Rock, Arkansas off Highway 67.
That's were we grocery shop... The big city lol
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
I forgot Lizzard Lick, Potecasi and Sandy Bottom nc .
I was too busy scratching my…… oh, oops.😉